[center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/BHScL9w.png[/img] [b][color=Aquamarine]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,055 (+4) [b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 10[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (139/110) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Dead Zone [/center] Midna rose up to the back of her flygon, the pokemon’s accent towards the ceiling aided by the hot air billowing up from the burning Gravemind. It was chased by several large [url=https://i.imgur.com/Tzi0bB9.jpeg]flood swarm forms[/url] that had detached from the wounded corpse mass, the mutated predators spitting infectious barbed projectiles after the princess who had stolen a limb from their overlord. [color=Aquamarine]”Get lost you oversized kees!”[/color] Midna yelled at them, before having a thought and changing her mind, saying [color=Aquamarine]”Wait, no, on second thought, come here!”[/color] and prompting her beast to pivot and dive right back down towards them. As she did spectral poes swirled out around her along with a ghostly aura as she made use of Shemira’s magic, one that engulfed the swarm forms as she dove into the midst of them. As her magic smothered them, the princess sword flashed, severing the wing of one foe, while her flygon lashed out with draconic claws to rend the face of another asunder. As they hacked at the oversized bats, Minda strummed her lyre, causing her to unleash retaliatory musical bolts against the swarmers when they slashed at her flygon, retaliations joined by the cactus needles that spiked out from it when either of them were hit. At the same time, her specters slipped through the swarmers, sapping their life from their bones, and granting half of it to their mistress. They also ensured she always had two stacks of Starward Demonhunt, reducing the damage she took. [color=Aquamarine]”Come on! Keep trying! Keep falling!”[/color] she cried out as blade and claw reaped a bloody toll, till the last swarmer fell. Once the aerial battle was over, the princess’ flygon was certainly worse for wear, but she herself had actually gained life from fighting these lesser foes. It was as it ended that Sandalphon’s chime for her to switch targets came in, but before she had a moment to respond, things got worse. Up on high as she was, Midna was right there by the ceiling as it ripped itself away, and un-engaged as she was, she had all the time in the world to turn her gaze up to it, and see what A had initiated. [color=Aquamarine]”Goddesses. Selene, what have they done to that moon?”[/color] she asked the silent heavens, but there was no answer from the distant divine, only the rapidly approaching eldritch horror. After a moment of heart pumping dread, she ripped her gaze away from the impending doom, and instead set it upon its herald, telling Sandalphon she was [color=Aquamarine]”on it”[/color] before diving down towards A. As she approached, the princess roared [color=Aquamarine]”These ones can claw!”[/color] in response to the question of what a nail or finger could do against a hand, as she lept off of her flygon (which then portaled home to lick its wounds), whipped out her shadow hand before her, and extended from its fingertips great purple dragon claws. With the momentum of her plummet behind them she drove her claws into the pulsing heart attached to A’s back, and then used that grip to pivot her downward momentum into a swing around the feet of the towering figure, [url=https://i.imgur.com/CmZVPfY.gif]slideing[/url] across the ground when she touched down on it. As she began that spin she re-summoned her Beast Legion that she had stashed before fleeing skywards, the chimera dropping behind the foe and then having its chain swung halfway around the titan’s feet before Midna was forced to let go of his back. Rather than speed away from A, she extended a clawed hand and dug it into the ground, causing her body to drift like a motorcycle around A. Sliding like so, she linked up with her beast legion, and in so doing completed their encirclement of him, briefly binding the Mobius in place using the astral chain linking them together. In that moment, she threw the rest of her mana reserves into summoning a force to humble the bound titan, her Darknut stepping out of a portal behind her, enlarged enough that it towered over A. It had failed to strike him before, but now, faced with a stationary target, it was able to bring the pain. Its titanic broadsword, already larger than a man before its bearers enlargement, rose up, silver edges of its black blade flashing in the fire and moonlight, and then crashed down upon A, dealing a devastating singular strike to his form. [color=Aquamarine]”Get my point?”[/color] Minda taunted as she pushed herself to her feet (having Akira slid herself to a halt) wincing a little as she did so. Though she had transferred much of the momentum of her fall into him, it still hadn’t been a painless landing. She did much more than wince as a maw opened on the chest of A as, in response to her attack (and inability to retaliate against the darknut itself who had stepped back into the portal it had come out of before he had recovered), A spewed a torrent of blighted fluids at her. She recoiled in disgust, and then stumbled back to her knee as the horrendous feeling of being eaten alive by a million tiny organisms overwhelmed her for a moment. It primed A to deliver a second retaliation, tendrils lashing out of that [url=https://i.imgur.com/Fturng7.png]same maw[/url], only for claws to lash out from the aether as her beast legion pounced to her defense, deflecting the blow just in time for Midna to recover. Her night sky ripper flashed up as she stood, cleaving into the tendrils as they attempted to course correct back to her. A windy aftershock knocked it back more, buying enough time for her to leap up, vault off of the back of her beast legion, and slam a Cyclone Kick into A’s face, unleashing a devastating cyclone of wind, and winning her 73% chance to stun him in the process. The recoil blasted her back again, the princess landing and sliding backwards a bit as she did, before coming to a halt. [color=Aquamarine]”This one’s for you, my captive audience”[/color] she told A, as she used her 5 second grace period her stun granted to strum her lyre, blessing her allies in this fight her Rainbow Rondo buff, and leaving the stage clear for them to take their own shots at the Consul before he could act again.